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BJP routed in state polls
NEW DELHI, Feb 25: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was routed on Sunday in state polls, including in its traditional power base Uttar Pradesh, denting its credibility as the dominant...
New law on reserved seats soon
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: The government is all set to introduce a law under which the political parties getting less than 10 per cent of votes for the general seats, will not...
Karzai seeks close relations with Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 25: Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai, on the second day of his first official visit to Iran, on Monday called for Tehran and Kabul to work together to create...
US likely to seek Omar Shaikh’s extradition
WASHINGTON, Feb 25: One of the main suspects in the Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and murder case, Omar Saeed Shaikh, was wanted by the US authorities even before the Wall Street Journal...
12 killed as two clans of Marri tribe clash
QUETTA, Feb 25: At least 12 tribesmen were killed and four others injured, two of them seriously, in an armed clash on Monday between two rival clans of Marri tribe, in...
Islamabad, Kabul to reopen border post
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to reopen a border post at Ghulam Khan for establishing the third route between the two countries, an official said....
Narayanan’s remarks unfortunate, says ISPR
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: The spokesman for President Musharraf, Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi, on Monday termed Indian President K.R. Narayanan’s speech in the Indian Parliament “unfortunate and disappointing.”...
11 killed in accident
SUKKUR, Feb 25: Ten Hindu Yatris and a truck cleaner were killed and twelve others injured in an accident on the Indus Highway, near the village Sitara Buxapur, Jacobabad District, on...
Sushma to visit Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Feb 25: India has decided to send Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj to Islamabad to participate in a Saarc information ministers’ conference starting on March 7, officials and...
6 of a family among 8 die in accident
KHAIRPUR, Feb 25: Eight people, including six of a family were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a car and a jeep near the Shah Latif...
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TEHRAN, Feb 25: Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai, on the second day of his first official visit to Iran, on Monday called for Tehran and Kabul to work together to create...
